Stock Market Update ~ 13-05-2011

US Stock Market
Dow Jones (0.52%), S&P 500 (0.49%) and NASDAQ (0.63%). Oil prices rose almost 1% to settle at $98.97 a barrel. First-time unemployment benefits in the most recent week fell to 434,000, down from the previous week but worse than economists’ expectations. Retail sales rose 0.5% in April